Abstract: In al-Tih, Munīf discusses the transformations that affect the Arabian Peninsula at the start of the period of oil extraction. Chased from the places they once controlled, the desert and the oasis, men accumulate in the camps of the new city that they are building. A place of exile, the camp transforms the relationship that these Bedouins have with their own body, which is the hostage of two prisons, physically constrained by the worker’s uniform and the camp. This forces a reexamination of the representation of masculinity.
